In Honor of My New Favorite Sport: Homeless Soccer.

This isn’t a street performer, this is a soccer player.

I heard about this story a bit ago, and you might’ve too,  but in case you haven’t… on the Sunday the 24th (=Today!), In South Africa the Homeless World Cup of Soccer is kicking off! Sadly there will be no TV coverage as far as I can see, I would actually pay for this on pay per view, thankfully there is a webcam on the offical site!. I kind of find it ironic that these people are homeless, yet the sponsors can throw an event which costs at least a few millions, the eligibility requirements are very interesting as well;

Players must:

• Be male or female and at least 16 years of age at the time of the tournament
• Have been homeless at some point after the previous year’s World Cup OR
• Make their main living income as a streetpaper vendor OR
• Be asylum seekers (who have neither positive asylum status nor working permit)          

Needless to say I will be cheering on our best US Homeless soccer players.

Offical Site   Washington Post Article